Re: How about tailredo?

Brian Peasland wrote:
> What is the use of this application? I already have Log Miner to show me
> the contents of the online redo log. Obviously, this is not in realtime
> like a "tail -f" is, but then why do I care? Do I really need to see the
> transactions scroll by. In many cases, they would be scrolling by too
> fast to read anyway. I have some databases that fill up a 1GB online
> redo log file in less than five minutes. Not to mention the resources
> now being utilized on your database server. LGWR is writing to the log
> group. Eventually, ARCn will read from it. And now there will be another
> process reading that file, while LGWR is writing to it?
>
> I'm not trying to say that this idea does not have merit. I'm just
> wondering what the practical application of this would be. I just do not
> see it.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian

For real-time debugging it might be of interest.

For teaching students what Oracle is doing it would be of real value.

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